Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-05-13
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

last MOuudS.
The white laborers on the Northern
Pacific Improvements at Tacoma struck
last Tuesday, for an advance from 81 Is
to - per day.
Little Frank Wing, who was injured
by landslide several days ago, has
fully recovered from his injuries and
is now attending school as usual at Ia
coma.
The Northern Pacific headquarters
building at the end of Pacific avenue,
at Tacoma, is to cost 500, 600 and
will be four stories high. Work is to
begin in u few days.
One of the old pioneers of this Ter
ritory, Mr.. Moore, who lived between
Puyallup and Summer, died Monday,
at his home. The remains were
buried at locality near Steilacoom.
Mr.. Frank A. Pontius, Treasurer of
King county, has just sent to the Ter
ritorial Treasurer, $15,l55 81, being
the amount of Territorial taxes col
lected from the taxpayers of King
county for the year 1856.
H. o. Geiger's dredging machine was
shipped to Tacoma on the 23d of last
month and will arrive there in a few
days. The first dredging will be the
channel of the Puyallup river from
Browns wharf down towards the head
of the bay.
One Of the first steps to make WALL,
Walla manufacturing center war
taken last Saturday by the Organiza
ton OF the Walla Walla WoOlen Man.
ufacturing Company with a capital
stock Of 500, 600 in shares of 500. The
mills are to be put in operation al
soon as possible.
The Canadian Pacific Railway has
made arrangements with the owners o.
the steamer Eliza Anderson to run be-
tween Tacoma and Vancouver, B. c.,
in the passenger service. Her time
for leaving Tacoma will be in Close
connection with the trains from Port
land Monday, Wednesday and Satur
day evenings.
Kanaka Joe, who worked upon the
rollers at the Tacoma mill, ate hearty
dinner at noon Monday and began
work in the afternoon. He had beer
at work but few minutes, when he
fell to the floor and expired. DR.
Beardsley was called in pronounced
the cause of death heart disease. The
Coroner held an inquest over the body
in the afternoon.
A carriage containing two men wal
struck by locomotive of a coal train
at Tacoma, Wednesday, while they
were attempting to drive across the
track, and one of them, Gus Burdine
by name, was thrown out and killed
Both men were said to have beer
slightly intoxicated and no blame il
attached to the engineer, who made
every effort to stop his train soon al
the necessity BECAME apparent.
Mrs. M. A. Dodge died at her home
in LaConner, on Sunday, May 9Th
from q disease contracted by overwork
in endeavoring to pay off a mortgage
on the farm left to her by her hus.
band. Mrs. Dodge was sister VI Mrs
F. A. Pontius, of Seattle, Mrs. N
Crosby and Mrs. Clara Harmon. She
leaves two daughters, Mrs. F. Darcy
Of LaConner, and Miss Leila Dodge
Her sisters, Mrs. Pontius and Mrs
Crosby were by her side when she
passed away.
The Post Intelligencer corrccts the
count of the killed in the Nanaimc
disaster. That paper places the dead
at 96, az follows: In the mine at the
time of the explosion were lit human
beings-1O2 white men and IS China
men. Six of the white men were res
cued alive. The places of nativity o.
the remainder of the white men, who
persisted, were as follows: England SO
Wales 8, Sweden 4, United States TO-
British Columbia Is, Cape Breton 4
Scotland Z, Ireland 5, Nova Scotia 2
Italy 4, and Holland l. Forty-fve O
the unfortunate miners left widows tG
mourn for them, and 100 children los
their fathers.
Post-lntelligencer: Of and on fol
the past three or four weeks Chief Jus
tice Jones has been listening to the ar
guments pro and con in the case of thu
ship John Rosenfeld VS.. the tug Ia
coma. It will be remembered that
some months ago, while the tug was
towing the ship from Nanaimo to the
sea she lowed her ON to o rock in thu
Gulf Of Georgia, where she still re
mains. The ship was new and fine
vessel valued at $75, 600, and the prop
erty of John Resented and others ir
San Francisco. The owners of thu
ship claimed that the accident was due
to the carelessness and negligence OIL
the officers of the tug, and commenced
action against the owners of the tug
to recover damages. Under the law
the damages recoverable cannot ex
exceed the appraised valuation of the
tug. Yesterday afternoon Chief JUS
tice Jones announced his decision
He gave the owners of the ship yer
dict for 81, 900 and costs, which will
amount to q very large sum, probably
s., 900 or $4,000. In his findings the
chief justice threw all the blame fol
the accident ON the tug, the pilot and
the captain of the tug, for strandine
the ship, but at the same time crit
cised the master of the Roscnteld fol
quitting the vessel and abandoning
her without taking the proper steps te
get her off the rocks. The Judge
further finds that had the captain
used due diligence and skill the vesse
could have been foated off at an ex
pense of not to exceed ten per cent
As is usual in such cases the case will
probably be appealed to the Supreme
Court of Washington Territory, anG
may probably be carried to the court
OF last resort, the Supreme Court o
the United States.
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